The Perfect Luna novel Chapter 40

They all froze, watching Reid breathing heavily as he stood at the entrance of the barn. He wasn’t supposed to be here. And he did not look his usual self with messy hair and crazy eyes that were glowing blue now. Eyes that were looking at Maya only.

“Who the hell are you?!” Brayden growled, his head snapping in his wife’s direction. However, he quickly realised, to his own relief, that the intruder wasn’t looking at her. So he placed Maya back to her feet. Riannon cuddled her friend at once. Nevertheless, Maya wasn’t her usual self either.

“Mate,” she whispered and, for the first time ever, Riannon saw a tear running down her cheek.

Maya never cried before. At least, she hadn’t had any memories of her doing that. Maya was tough. And yet her mate managed to bring the emotions out of her within just a mere second.

“Mate,” Reid smiled at her, stepping inside.

“I am going to ask just one more time,” Brayden clicked his fingers to make his warriors spread out evenly through the room, “Who are you?!”

“Brayden,” Ria snapped at him, “This is Beta Reid Frazer, he is king Gideon’s second in command. A lycan! Didn’t you see him at the Alpha Ball?”

The warriors were visibly perplexed but none of them budged. They all stood ready to defend their Alpha and Luna if it was necessary and Riannon felt proud of them at that moment in time. Even though they were personally trained by her husband and not her. While she handled inner matters and politics, Brayden was the one who took care of their army and their training. This was something he was very good at.

But she did not want their people to fight a lycan. And Reid of all the people in the world.

“There is no need for this,” she stepped in between them hoping to negotiate. “Of course, there isn’t,” her husband said through his teeth, “Just leave our territory and

“Not without my mate,” the lycan balled his fists, muscles flexing on his arms and chest.

“You mean Maya?” the Alpha looked at the girl who stood next to his wife and an idea struck him at once, “Well, you need to know that from this day in our pack she is considered a traitor.”

“Brayden!” now Riannon wanted to slap him even more than when he was sleeping with Roxy in the next room to hers. She glanced at her friend and noticed how she clenched her lips.

“Maya is a beautiful name,” was all that Reid said to them as he took another step.

“And Maya will have to leave now to the border for her punishment,” Brayden said coldly, “You can make a formal request and…”

“She will be leaving,” Reid quirked his brow up at the Alpha, acknowledging him for the first time,“To the border with the Lycan Kingdom. And then she will cross it to go and leave with me. Today.”

“This is not how these things work!” Brayden said with a smirk, “There are procedures

that have to be done and…”

“F***k the procedures!” Reid snarled and the warriors got tense, “I am not leaving her! She is mine! And unless you want to offend a Beta of the lycan kingdom…”

“I can’t!” Maya said and they all looked at her. The pain was evident on her mate’s face, but he stayed strong. “I cannot leave Riannon here alone.”

Ria bit her lip. She didn’t tell Maya that she had found her mate yet. She did not want to do that over the phone. She couldn’t do that now. However, she was sure that it was an extremely good idea to get her out of this pack. She would be safe with the lycans. And they would reunite after the inevitable divorce.

“As I have said,” Brayden interrupted them, “Right now you will go to the border. And we will go from there.”

“No,” Riannon said loudly, “She will not go to the border. She will go with Reid, her mate!”

“Ria!” Maya looked at her pleadingly. She knew for a fact that her friend would be in danger here now. She tasted it just a few minutes ago when she got framed so easily and no one could do anything about it.

“Maya, it’s okay,” the Luna tried to reassure her friend, “We’ll take you to the lycan kingdom now and I will explain to you everything on the way, but…”

“About that,” Brayden interjected them and they all looked at him warily, “Considering everything that is happening lately, I think that it would be best if you stayed here, Ri.”

She froze, not knowing how to react to that. She knew that she had to come back at the end of the week, but she sure as hell did not want to stay here today. Gideon would be back soon and she counted on spending the little time they had left together until the big game had to start.

“But I am not done with the work in the lycan kingdom,” she said calmly, concealing all of

“I am sure your work was very productive.” Brayden looked at her with veiled anger in his eyes, “I felt it even when you were far away from me.”

She knew what he meant. And she knew that she had been defeated in that argument already. He wouldn’t let her go and she had to suck it up.

“She is a part of our pack for now,” Brayden sneered, even though he actually wanted the Beta girl gone. But he knew that he had to make Riannon struggle with this one to make her think less of herself.

“He is right,” Riannon smiled at the two of them, “Go, M. I will pack your things and Dean will bring them to you.”